Skills needed by 2030

As automation moves into workplaces, the types of employee skills needed will shift, according to a new report by McKinsey Global Institute.

McKinsey Global Institute, the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Co. with headquarters in New York, looked at 25 core skills for today’s workplace and those of the future in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, according to a May 24 article on FastCompany.com.

The report states that by 2030:

The demand for technological skills, both basic digital and advanced tech, will rise 55%.

The demand for social and emotional skills, such as leadership and management, will rise 24%.

The demand for basic cognitive skills, which include basic data input and processing, will decline 15%.

And the demand for physical and manual skills, which include equipment operations, will decline 14%.

“The watchword of the new era will be adaptability,” says Eric Hazan, co-author of the report. “Workers, and also companies, will need to be open and embrace new forms of working, new structures and new approaches in a world of work that will be changing rapidly.”

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